Acer executive: If Nokia goes with Android, they'd be a force to be reckoned with

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14 Jun 2013, 13:50posted on

At Computex, Acer hinted that they might be releasing a Windows Phone 8 model in the first half of next year; Acer's vice president for the EMEA region, Allen Burnes, subsequently said that building an Acer branded Windows Phone 8 model is not in the cards right now. The executive said that sales and volume are important to Acer, and Android provides the results that the company wants...

This is the funniest if not most hilarious bunch of comments I've read in a long time. It seems like 98% of people on this site wants Nokia to make an Android device. Here's the funny part. I thought Android devices were suppose to be good. If 98% of these commentors want Nokia to join the Android family it speaks volumes. It tells me Android users have low esteem in their own Android products and that they aren't worth crap. Maybe this is why Android fans despise iOS. They actually know their devices are second class. And they really need a great device. It must say a lot that Nokia themselves doesn't want to contaminate their phones with Android. Man I can't stop laughing.

Great comment. Agree with you 200%. If you look at the "mad robot" handsets, there are just a few that are worthy, most of them are cheap quality, poor performance devices. And overtime, performance sucks even more as the software slows to a crawl....... It seems that people get dumber by the day......... Just read the recent articles all over the internet and you'll find a lot of interesting cues to what should happen in the future........
1- Samsung is going the Tinzen road
2- Samsung is making 95% of the profits in android headsets
3- Google wants stock android phones, less customization to try to avoid the horrific fragmentation
4- HTC is crumbling down, despite having very good handsets
5- Motorola is alive because Google pours in money in them (wait, isn't Motorola a Google company??? The hell, they should be the #1 android maker out there......)

To be very honest, the ONLY thing android has today is apps, if it weren't for that..........

Nokia was also in badwagon along with othr oem,s . But there were some issues with google which led it to drop the idea of android( as there wer certain cnditions that google put). Nokia already had maemo in the pipeline. But the only issue it faced was lack of money and non supporting android apps and games.. When symbian was dying there was no running cash for nokia, so msft ( elope obviously) made a deal where windows became the primary focus of nokia as an o.s and meego was abondoned. although there is very low possibility of nokia running into android as now windows has already gained fame ( through nokia obviuosly, they couldnot make it through htc, palm and dell).....but i agree with acer and the writer of the article that if nokia decides to jump then it will definatly dethrone anybdy and will create its own identity(. Even though there are now thousands of companies worldwide with android as a base) but personally i feel sony and htc are doing good as well with their own skins and custom u.i. .

It's so stupid. Nokia basically already has the hardware, they just need to put android into their devices. Then there you have it, your nokia android phone. They'd probably be able to double their smartphone share overnight. stupid.

I wouldn't say "never", bit after a huge foundation-up revamp of android and not being within the confines of a contract with Microsoft, I could see them maybe toeing the waters. Nokia expects a lot out of its handsets, as do its customers, and right now (and previously) android doesn't deliver, and Windows Phone is as close as they can get for now. I would guess they'd probably go with Sailfish before Android though.

It's no secret that a Nokia with an Android OS would end up on top of all Android devices. Nokia will increase their profit by 400% in just a quarter. Can you imagine a Nokia smartphone with 1080p 5-inch screen running Android 5 (Key Lime Pie) powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 41MP PureView sensor! Wow! Easily the undisputed phone of all time.

It's not fault of Nokia, it's Microsoft who are going too slow in upgrading and developing WP OS, then their restrictions are also hurting Nokia. Microsoft said they have included support for upto 72 cores in WP8, but they hadn't activated it on it, they should have brought out support for FullHd screen last year itself,, but they stopped at support for HD screens, hope this year onwards Microsoft will pull it's sock, and we will see rapid pace of development in WP(but bad thing about hope is that, it always remain hope, especially in case of Microsoft)

Microsoft had promised support for more than 60 cores in WP8, but they had only optimized it for dual cores, that's the reason we aren't seeing any quadcore WP8 phones, though there are many WP8 phones with micro SD slot, I think except Lumia 920/925/928 and HTC's WP8 offering all other manufacturers launched their WP8 phone with Micro sd slot......... With GDR3 update WP8 will be optimized for quadcore and octacore, and will also support FullHd screen............

if only microsoft will loosen up and bring the good features to windows phone that it needs and cut out the wall garden crap.if nokia had android phones they would dominate the market, samsung wouldn't even be close,i android would have a market share of about 70%.
but guess what wp8,ios and android are all need to continue the trend of innovation. if there was only android then there wouldn't be the drive to innovate,therefore the need for wp8, ios and android to pus boundries and new ideas!

The way a lot of Android fans here talk about Nokia, you would think they would never by such a brick-like device whose only claim to fame is a camera.

But if Nokia were to ever make such a move, I bet suddenly everybody here would be praising the camera and saying "great build quality" instead of brick. Just watch; if they switch, this is exactly what will happen.

those days where people would not resort to this sort of post sure are missed, people hate Nokia, people here hate Samsung too and Samsung has android... people also hate HTC, and LG (I hate LG) but on that matter there are people who would love their favorite OS on their favorite maker and if that would include Nokia it would be nice. can we stop with this hate assumptions?

You are right and I apologize for making that post. While I sincerely believe what I said in my statement, I was being immature in actually stirring the pot with the comment.

I love to have rational discussion that revolves around objective observations, but I had abandoned hope for that on much of the internet, especially here. That's just the truth; I'm jaded from the fanboyism and lack faith in people's ability to be objective and intelligent. But for the sake of not being one of those people that stirs the pot like this, I will try to shelve those types of comments unless it is a direct response to an individual.

Thanks, I've always like the way you post, even if I don't agree, some of us appreciate more than the average "x sucks y rocks" we get around here these days without reason, also its alright to be a fanboy. when our products nail it we feel good onside and we see things different, posting how we fell the worlds rolls around our heads heh, you can go and express how you feel about certain things just don't let the trolls drag you along with them . You can still mess with them tho, here I get called droidsheep ,I get insulted(apparently the bigger the insult the more right they are ), lucky I have a report button for those occasions, And honestly some people her are quite annoying... On a similar post I got bashed for thinking that a Nokia android phone could easily become a top seller (I'll buy it over a Galaxy any day, specially if its a nexus).

I don't think it's that they hate the devices, I think the fanboys here have learn to hate other fanboys, and the best way to get under each other's skin is to talk about the thing they like most. When you see fanboy calling the 920 a brick, it's just a jab at the WP/Nokia fanboys. They fire back with plasticky, laggy, sh**p, or whatever. Next thing you know... Full blown flame war!

But again, you've hit the nail on the head. There will be a few Android users and fanboys backpedaling if this does happen. I just want to go on record and say I don't care if it's twice as thick as the 920, if it has Android in it... I'm getting it!

15.papss (unregistered)

Is this the same Acer that is mediocre in just about everything they make? I could care less where Nokia goes because I would surely follow them. Hell it was reason enough to get me away from android and introduced to WP8 which I find to be a great OS.

Agree a bout Acer, their products aren't that good, relatively inferior than the rest on the same category, I only recommend it as a cheap trip computer you can toss and never care if it breaks but never as a primary device

I've never had a problem with Acer's stuff, especially their monitors. The only desktop I've bought (I build my own) was an Acer and it still works well. If I were in the market.for a store-bought computer or laptop, Acer and Asus would be at the top of my list.

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